I freshly installed Gentoo Linux on a Dual PIII-500MHz System (Intel N440BX Server Mainboard). After performing the steps in the quick install manual I ran "emerge gnome kde mozilla mozilla-firefox mozilla-firebird links lynx apache w3m joe...." emerging lots of applications (>270 emerges total). I left the machine compiling for 2 Days. I then added a few services to the default runlevel (mysqld, postgres, apache2, etc.) After that I rebooted the system. Now init displayed a lot of error messages and did not start nesecary services (eg. net.eth1) and services that depend on it. It also did some boot services twice (e.g. Root-fsck, etc.) You could see the whole output of it in the attachment of this bug. I already tried to reemerge baseloyout. Reproducible: Didn't try Steps to Reproduce: Since installing gentoo is a time consuming task and since I don't think I'm able to reproduce the exact environment under which this bug appears I didn't yet try to reproduce it.
Created attachment 50703 [details] emerge info
Created attachment 50704 [details] Messages displayed by init
Created attachment 50705 [details] lspci
Created attachment 50706 [details] lsmod
Please note that after logging in it is no problem starting net.eth1 or other services (apache2, netmount) (it only displays an error)
no idea what this error is: /sbin/rc: line 914: 5EE: value too great for base (error token is "5EE") this can be ignored: action_compat: error unlinking: "vcsa2" No such file or directory you didnt setup your kernel properly which is why net.eth failed and since that failed, all your other services could you try doing this: grep -r 5EE /etc and see if it matches anything ?
I don't think it's a kernel issue since I could start net.eth1 manually on the prompt. (/etc/init.d/net.eth1 start)
it's a configuration bug on your end of some sort, you dont get those 'No Such Device' errors for nothing please post the requested info about running `grep -r 5EE /etc`
hmm...well when I reboot it displays the same error as above, when i reboot again too. But now I left the machine untouched for a day and now eth1 works, but I still get those annoing vcsa3 errors. Also It says the folowing: * Activating (possibly) more swap... [ ok ] * Caching service dependencies... [ ok ] /sbin/rc: line 1146: RC_DEP: command not found * Bringing eth0 down... [ ok ] * Setting system clock to hardware clock [UTC]... [ ok ] * Configuring kernel parameters... [ ok ] * Updating environment... [ ok ] * Cleaning /var/lock, /var/run... [ ok ] * Cleaning /tmp directory... [ ok ] and then it redoes to tasks from checking filesystems onwards (with the error at Caching service dependencies still displaying). And after cleaning /tmp directory the second time it says: * Setting user font... [ ok ] then the vcs5 errors (as in the attachment) * Loading key mappings... [ ok ] * Bringing lo up... [ ok ] error calling: "unlink" in "GLOBAL" * Initialising the random number generator... [ ok ] INIT: Entering runlevel: 3 [ ok ] and after that booting seemes fine (note: after seeing it's like this I changed eth1 to eth0 (using another nic now)) And to answer your Question: RC_DEP is contained nowhere in /etc vcs3 too 5EE -> See attached file!
Created attachment 50916 [details] grep -r 5EE _etc
can you upgrade to baselayout-1.11.9-r1 and see if that fixes things ?
Thx, works fine now, but how do I specify the keymap now? (there is no entry in rc.conf any more)
/etc/conf.d/keymaps
I freshly installed gentoo 2005.0 on a totally different machine (and I installed baselayout-1.11.9 at the very beginning) and the "action_compat: error unlinking: "vcsa2" No such file or directory" errors showed up again. But then I compiled the kernel manually and now I dont't get this error. So it seemes to have something to do with genkernel....
that is devfs related and really has always been around ... in other words, we're not going to bother trying to fix it since they can safely be ignored
